bigbill

Fin nor is in Florida I'm not sure where there rods and reels are manufactured. My US Reel super casters were made in the USA but there designed here and made overseas. My Chinese baitcaster looks like a Garcia blackmax.(clone) My new Chinese spinning rod feels great. New Chinese spinning reel. All these countries are after our market. As there quality gets better the price wars will begin. It's China, Japan, south Korea, Vietnam, etc. There all tooling up for manufacturing already. There hungry and want our business=money. Don't sell China short they have barefoot doctors curing throat cancer. They ride bicycles.

But I lost big bass on long casts when they dive in the weeds

Joesfly black gnat Wordens rooster tail spinner, silver blade, dressed white. Panther Martin silver blade, dressed yellow

The bomber FAT A's were discontinued. I find the same size 05 still successful. I use all the colors.

The bomber FAT A's were discontinued. I find the same size 05 in the model A still successful. I use all the colors. Red craw Brownccraw Greencraw Firecraw Silver Baby bass orange bottom Just a few I use

My sons took me fishing on Father's Day. My youngest son brings night crawlers incase it's slow. The dam was open with the threat of flooding at another place. He caught every panfish in the area. My oldest son lost a few bass. Dad had fun watching the boys again.

It worked on my iPad. Shad colors in the fall. White colors. Sounds great. It's no different than fishing in saltwater, we search for gulls working the bait boiling top water. Then the schooling weakfish or bluefish would be under the baitfish. This was 40 years ago we did this. We circled the trolling lines around them not to spook them. I don't have gulls but I look for the pads boiling.

I been purchasing new discounted older rods and reels they work but like us I don't know how old they are. The rods with the chrome eyes I retired 60's/70's. There in my museum. But I'm not sure how old my new LEWS SPEED STICKS are. My museum goes back to bamboo fly rods, steel telescopic fly rods to steel baitcaster rods. I have the old reels and new line for them on the original spools. Don't know how old. There's no history book on fishing equipment.

Nice. On spinning gear too. It's fun. One of my favorite spinning rods is a med 5'6" throwing lighter baits is fun. I need to use baitcasters more.

My kindle won't play the video. Ill try my Apple I pad. Normally I'm burned out by july/august with bass fishing. But lately I want to bass fish more in the fall. Labor day starts the bear hunting season but that can wait. I did find out the bass were still feeding in November with snow falling. Bucket list To stalk one big Bruin and give him a pass. Done it before with cubs/Sows. Break the state LMB record. C&R.

My baby ducks arrived. Great winter project. There 12 for $6 plus ship. 2" inches long. I'm thinking a self sticking slot car small lead weight on the bottom, a wire leader with hook and a Buzzbait prop in the front. Some orange yellow plastic for legs. Just found 100 yellow feathers on Amazon for $2.78.

Brannans bass shop has a larger assortment of bomber cranks. Firecraw is a hot color.

AP let him retire and breed he earned it. Spread that DNA. It was an exciting year for horse racing and the triple crown.

Rip lt. May God take care of you. Prayers sent. So close to retirement. I heard stories about snipers going out one last time before heading home. And never coming back.

Me too a new lure

Go to YouTube and watch baby duck attacked by pike and bass. Watch the homemade duck lures.

I use the hummingbird portable fish finder at a new spot. This tells me the bottom structure, flats, holes, depths, transition points. Rocky points. Now I know how to fish it from shore.

I just seen the hookset video with Hank Parker on Facebook. He said that they had a hookset tester setup and all of them couldn't get past the lower end of the scale. Mr. LEWS stopped by with his speed stick and using his wrist only scored the highest near the top of the scale. I'm thinking use your wrist lightly. I love fishing history and using my new LEWS SPEED STICK rods now. I understand the words speed stick now.

Road kill raccoon yummy Get well soon, cracks me up, (belly laugh) thanks I needed a pick me up today.

Her body English and look says it's time to go fishing lol

I patiently watched a fish tearing up the pads not within reach from shore everyday for a month. Just waiting and buying my time. One morning about 7:30/8am it was on my side of the pads. I casted my topnocker passes it and then feet to the right of the edge of the pads. I slowly walked it and popped it when it got near him. He hit it like a freight train. The fight was on. He was pulling in every direction. It didn't feel like a bass but it was a strong pull. I constantly heard my drag click off. I had only 8lb test Excalibur silver thread line. Finally I landed it and a 30" chain pickerel was it. This battle was awesome. It makes me want to target great northern pike sometime. Funny I fish three hot healthy spots and in all three places one giant pickerel was caught. The best bass fight I ever had was my 6lb 1oz bass in my pic. She swam the whole place. My pb10# didn't fight like that but she hit two feet from shore. Too close.

Reload. We run 6k of 45cap and 5k of 308. But with four of us shooting paper it doesn't last long.

A guy here from the old country takes pickerel which are boney. He makes fishcakes

Charcoal or gas? Is this even a debate? Nothing like a hardwood fire. Fresh caught catfish, burgers, dogs, kielbasa, sausage, even pepperoni sticks taste awesome on wood

How many brands come from China. Everything I look at says made in China. Made in Taiwan, Philippines, Korea but mostly China. I'm sorry your quality and my quality may differ price wise too. We manufacture over there because there's no laws on environmental waste yet.